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Almanach de la cour, de la ville et des départemens pour l'année 1829. Paris: Louis Janet, [1828]. 12mo (11.2 cm, 4.4"). [34], 254, [2] pp.; 4 plts. $350.00
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1829's issue of this useful and decorative annual, “orné de jolies gravures.” The preliminary calendar is followed by genealogical information for European nobility, the list of French bishops and archbishops, the royal household roster (both domestic and military), names and positions of civil servants by department, members of chivalrous orders, major military officers, etc. Thefour steel-engraved plates offer views of the Chateau de Neuilly, Chateau d'Avaray, Chateau de Lucienne, and Chateau de Rosny (with brief descriptions of these noble residences).
Binding: Publisher's apple green paper–covered boards in original matching slipcase with gilt-stamped spine title. All edges gilt.
Binding as above: lower front and back edges each with tiny bump, extremities showing very slight rubbing, slipcase with edges rubbed and a few small spots of discoloration. Front free endpaper with pencilled annotations in French. Pages and plates clean. Really in quite remarkable condition. (30574)
Born in Gdansk, Beckher (1594–1655) studied at several universities (Marburg, Heidelberg, Wittenberg, and Rostock) and eventually received an appointment as a professor of medicine at the University of Konigsberg. A steadfast follower of Paracelsus' teachings, he perhaps had blinders on regarding medical advances of the late 16th and early 17th century. Nonetheless, his Medicus microcosmus, first published in 1622 at Rostock as Spagyria microcosmi, tradens medicinam, e corpore hominis tùm vivo, tùm extincto doctè eruendam, scitè praeparandam, & dextrè propinandam, was a popular and widely used text of anatomy and therapeutics, as attested to by its having been reprinted several times on the Continent in the period to 1660.
This is the sole printing in England of any of Beckher's writings, here described as “Editio nova triplo auctior & correctior.”
Provenance: 20th-century bookplate of A. Garrigues, D.M. Most recently in the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).
Searches of NUC, ESTC, and WorldCat surprisingly locate only seven U.S. libraries (DNLM, NN [incomplete copy], CU-M, WU, PCarlD, NNOD, MiU) reporting ownership. Notably absent from that list are Harvard, Yale, the Huntington, New York Academy of Medicine, the College of Physicians, University of Texas, and the Folger.
ESTC R14791; Wing (rev. ed.) B1655. Mid-19th-century quarter leather with marbled paper sides; leather along joints abraded and top and bottom of front joint starting. Age-toning, notably to first leaves including title; discoloration in gutter margins from transference from leather (?). A good copy of a scarce English medical imprint. (39767)
A “Father of Botany” Here Going Biblical Adornments by “The Petrarch Master”
Brunfels, Otto; Hans Weiditz, illus. Precationes biblicae Sanctoru[m] Patrum, illustrium viroru[m] et mulierum utriusq[ue] Testamenti. Argentorati [Strasbourg]: apud Ioannem Schottum, 1528. 8vo (14.9 cm, 5.875"). 8, [91] ff.; illus. (final illus. & blank lacking). $4800.00
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Sole edition of an uncommon Biblical commentary from prolific author Otto Brunfels (1488–1534), a Carthusian monk, early convert to Protestantism, friend of von Sickingen and von Hutten, physician, and botanist so admired by Linnaeus that he labelled him one of the “Fathers of Botany.” The title-page is in black and red, and the Latin text is printed with italic type in single columns, with each page of text being framed by one of16 different four-element historiated borders cut by Hans Weiditz incorporating a variety of animate and inanimate subjects, including cherubs, armor, hounds, bears, columns, coins, a beetle, and even a monkey selling indulgences to a goose! Weiditz (1495–1537) was a very talented German Renaissance artist popularly known as “The Petrarch Master” for his woodcuts illustrating Petrarch's De remediis utriusque fortunae, although he also illustrated some of Brunfels' secular work.
Searches of WorldCat, COPAC, and the NUC Pre-1956 revealonly one holding at a U.S. institution.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
VD16 B 8553; Index Aurel. 125.614; Chrisman, Bibliography of Strasbourg Imprints, 1480-1599, B7.8.6. Not in Adams. 18th-century tan calf, rebacked; spine and covers enthusiastically yet inexpertly stamped in blind with a variety of shapes and tools, from daisies to fleurs-de-lis, rubbed and cracked with some loss of leather, one repaired tear, and new endpapers. Final leaf with device and following blank lacking. Chiefly marginal waterstaining mostly faded into the appearance of age-toning, throughout; a few small wormholes through perhaps the first quarter of text and six leaves inexpertly repaired including title-page; title-page with two small inked dots and one minor inked embellishment. Otherwise a few marginal chips, short tears, stains, or worn edges; booklabel as above. With its attractive, sometimes satirical woodcut page borders and its striking title-page, this is, though imperfect, a book to pore over. (38732)
Burns, Robert; William Marion Reedy, intro. The jolly beggars: A cantata. Portland, ME: Thomas Bird Mosher, 1914. 8vo (19.5 cm, 7.625"). Frontis., xxiii, [1], 106, [2] pp.; facsims. $50.00
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Burns' cantata gets the Thomas Bird Mosher treatment in this attractive limited edition with an introduction from American editor William Marion Reedy, followed by short selections from Matthew Arnold, James Douglas, William Scott Douglas, and James Sime. Originally published after Burns' death in 1799, the song tells of a group of six beggars' drunken reveling in a Scottish pub. Mosher's rendition includes a facsimile of the 1799 title-page, a facsimile of the last page of Burns' manuscript from the 1823 lithographed edition, and a facsimile of “the original air” of the final song; a black and white portrait of Burns stands as the frontispiece.
The colophon notes that this is one of 750 unnumbered copies “printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper and the type distributed in the month of December MDCCCCXIV.”
Bishop, Mosher, 180; Hatch, Mosher, 610. Green paper shelfback with pictorial blue and white paper–covered boards, white printed paper labels with green and red lettering to spine and front board; minor darkening to board edges; signatures unopened. In original white paper dust jacket; age-toned and edgeworn with chipping to extremities. A truly handsome edition in a nice copy. (38900)
Scarce Early Americanum — Harrisse's Copy, in His Personalized Gruel Binding
Catanaeus, Johannes Maria [a.k.a. Giovanni Maria Cattaneo]. Io: Mariae Catanaei Genua. [colophon: Romae: Impressum apud Iacobum Mazochium, 1514]. 4to (20.6 cm, 8.15"). [11] ff. (lacking final blank only). [SOLD]
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A neo-Latin poem in praise of the city of Genoa, including “some verses concerning Columbus and his voyages” (Harrisse). The author, a clergyman, is identified by various sources as Catanaeus, Cattaneo, Cataneo, etc. The neo-Latin poem is printed in roman and has two woodcut initials; the title-page sports a very handsome architectural woodcut border.
Binding:Signed custom binding done by the legendary Léon Gruel, stamped “Gruel” on front free endpaper: Dark brown morocco, spine with raised bands and gilt-stamped title, covers with small central gilt-stamped monogram of intertwined Hs (see provenance below), turn-ins with gilt border composed of several rolls. Marbled pastedowns and double marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.
Provenance: Front pastedown with armorial bookplates of Robert Walsingham Martin and Samuel Latham Mitchill Barlow, fleur-de-lis bookplate of “E.O.,” andleather ex libris of author, lawyer, historian, and book collector Henry Harrisse (two letters H intertwined, labelled “Nov. Eborac” [New York]). Back pastedown with institutional bookplates of Harvard (properly deaccessioned and appropriately stamped); front free endpaper with 19th-century inked annotation opening “B.A.V. No. 75...” Later in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Searches of NUC, WorldCat, and the bibliographies cited below find only seven U.S. libraries (MH, OCU, NN, ICN, RPJCB, CtY, DLC) reporting ownership.
Alden & Landis 514/3; Adams C1016; Brunet, Supplement, I, 225; Harrisse, BAV, 75;Sabin 11494; Index Aurel. 133.919; Edit16 CNCE 10294. Binding as above; bookplates as above; final blank leaf (only) lacking. Title-page with one small spot of foxing, pages otherwise clean, and this clearly a copy that has been “washed and pressed.” (39557)
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“The Strangest Dinner-Party That Ever Was Seen”
Comus [pseud. of Robert Michael Ballantyne]. The butterfly's ball and the grasshopper's feast. London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1857. 4to (25 cm, 9.8"). [2], 24 pp.; 8 col. plts. [SOLD]
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Uncommon first edition. This children's tale features eight color-printed plates and two pieces of sheet music, the latter making use of William Roscoe's original rhymed version of the events of the ball and the feast for lyrics. Ballantyne, a Scottish artist and prolific writer of juvenile fiction, composed his own expanded prose rendition of Roscoe's popular poem and accompanied it with delightful images ofbeetles in waistcoats, ladybugs with aprons and parasols, moles in top hats and striped pants, and many other quirkily appealing creatures.
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
NSTC 2C33421. Publisher's textured blue cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped decorative title within blind-stamped arabesque frame; spine and extremities rubbed. All edges gilt. Pages gently age-toned, with intermittent light spotting. (39061)
Illustrated with three offset, full-page illustrations, printed in black and green, “[t]his edition is limited to 100 numbered copies.” Numbers 1–40 were “reserved for members of the Society of Private Printers.” This is number 35. The text was printed on dampened Japanese Hoso-shi paper and the author's woodcut illustrations on blue-green Mingei paper.
The work, including the illustrations, is printed on the outside of double leaves unopened at fore-edge. The justification (pp. [2–3]), title (pp. [4–5]), and copyright notice (pp. [6–7]) extend across two pages. The text is set in Madura, the title in Jefferson Gothic, and the preliminaries in Gill Sans Medium Condensed.
The “triads” are three-line minimalist poems that now seem very 1950s/60s “coffee house” in style.
Chambers, Gogmagog, 18. Publisher's light boards covered with patterned Japanese Hana-asa paper. A fine copy. (35836)
Fernald, Mark. Life of Elder Mark Fernald, written by himself. Newburyport: Geo. Moore Payne & D.B. Pike; Philadelphia: Christian General Book Concern (pr. by William H. Huse), 1852. 12mo (19.6 cm, 7.7"). Frontis., 405, [1] pp. $150.00
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First edition: Composed in diary-like fashion by a Free Will Baptist (1784–1851) who proselytized throughout New England, this autobiography largely focuses on where, when, and how Fernald's preaching was conducted. The determined, hardworking author was particularly opposed to drinking and dancing, and returns frequently to those subjects.
The work opens with an introduction from the publishers, who dedicated the Life to the members of the First Christian Church and Society of Kittery, ME. The frontispiece portrait of Fernald was engraved by John Sartain, after a daguerrotype.
Binding: Publisher's textured black cloth, covers framed in blind rules and with foliate designs surrounding central gilt-stamped floral motifs on both boards. Spine gilt extra, all edges gilt.
Bound as above; spine extremities and corners rubbed, cloth showing small split starting at foot of front joint (hinge holding). Mild foxing to margins of frontispiece, with offsetting to title-page from guard leaf; two pages with small section of offsetting from now-absent laid-in item; pages otherwise clean. A solid, worthwhile copy with its gilt shining bright and crisp. (38618)
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LEC: Sacred Text with Expressionist Art – Signed
Goldin, Judah, trans.; Ben-Zion, illus. The living Talmud: The wisdom of the Fathers and its classical commentaries. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1960. 4to (32 cm, 12.625"). xxxi, [1], 165, [3] pp.; 12 plts. [SOLD]
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Designed by Joseph Blumenthal and printed at the Spiral Press, this Limited Editions Club presentation offers the challenging book of Jewish law and tradition with commentary. This attractive volume contains Hebrew text hand-set in Hadassah type and printed in red, in addition to the English translation by Judah Goldin, who also edited and introduced the edition, set in black Poliphilus and Bembo types. Expressionist artist Ben-Zion provided12 sepia-ink drawings (eleven full-page, and one double-spread) illustrating parts of the Talmudic text printed on a tissue guard before each drawing; these poignant works contrast the expansive, sacred text with their mono-color simplicity.
This is numbered copy 1002 of 1500 printed,signed by the artist at the colophon. The monthly newsletter and prospectus are laid in.
Binding: Quarter natural-grain goatskin vellum with black buckram sides and gilt lettering to spine; top edge is gilt.
Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 315. Binding as above; vellum darkened lightly in spots, spine-head warped slightly (but in no way broken) from being pulled out of the slipcase. In original red cloth–covered slipcase with cream spine label printed in black; clean and strong and one side with a small black spot, label with faint waterspot. Volume with one light finger smudge to front free endpaper, else clean. Another masterful LEC production, simply handsome, and in a very pleasing copy. (38941)
Hill, William Henry; Arthur F. Hill; Alfred Ebsworth Hill. The violin-makers of the Guarneri family (1626–1762): Their life and work. London: William E. Hill & Sons, 1931. 4to (29.9 cm, 11.75"). xxxvii, [3], 181, [5] pp.; 58 plts., 2 fold. maps, illus. $3250.00
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The first edition in its deluxe format, in an eye-catching Riviere binding: a carefully detailed, extensively illustrated examination of the careers and productions of all five of the master instrument-makers of the Guarneri family. The text is enhanced by58 full-page depictions of known examples of Guarneri work, often in multiple views, with many color-printed and the rest in crisply impressed photogravure, along with two oversized, folding maps and numerous in-text illustrations. And it bears a touching dedication to the memory of William Hill (1857–1929), noting that this history “embodies the knowledge and considered views of three brothers who lived and worked in a life-long intimacy.” The Hill family was itself known for fine violin-making and expert instrument repair work, and the W.E. Hill & Sons firm continues to be active today. This is hand-numbered copy 137 of only 200 produced in this special limited format, there having been apparently fewer than 700 copies produced for subscribers overall.
Binding: Signed brown morocco, covers framed and panelled in gilt double fillets with gilt corner fleurons and floral decorations enclosed by strapwork, front cover with central gilt-stamped Guarneri coat of arms, spine with gilt-ruled raised bands, gilt-stamped title and author, and gilt-stamped decorations in compartments. Turn-ins with one wide gilt roll and one narrow, joined by gilt double fillets. Page edges untrimmed. Binding dated 1931 (at spine foot) and gilt-stamped by Riviere & Son on lower front turn-in.
Provenance: From the library (sans indicia) of the great violinist Adolf Busch and by bequest to his daughter Irene Serkin and son-in-law Rudolph Serkin.
Binding as above; back cover with one scuff, front cover with small unobtrusive area of darkening towards upper outer corner. Offsetting to edges of free endpapers from turn-ins. Pages and plates clean and fresh. A striking, elegant volume, of surpassing interest for music historians and aficionados. (39690)
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A “Golden-Mouthed” Aldine
John Chrysostom, Saint; Giulio Poggiani, trans. Sancti Joannis Chrysostomi De virginitate liber, a Julio Pogiano conversus. Romae: Apud Paulum Manutium, Aldi F., 1562. 4to (21.8 cm, 8.625"). [8], 64 ff. $2250.00
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First Aldine edition: Chrysostom's meditations on the religious aspects of virginity, De Virginitate liber, along with a letter from Poggiani to Cardinal Bishop of Augsburg Otto Truchsess von Waldburg and a note to the reader. Essentially an extension of the papacy, the Roman Aldine press capitalized on its fame to disseminate — with great cachet — Vatican-approved texts in the publication war that was such an integral part of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation.
John Chrysostom (349–407) was one of the four doctors of the Greek Church and the foremost preacher among the Church Fathers, the name “Chrysostom” meaning “golden-mouthed.” The subject of some controversy, he fell afoul of the Empress Eudoxia and was exiled. Italian humanist and Greek scholar Poggiani (1522–68), secretary to Carlo Borromeo, led a much calmer life editing texts related to the Council of Trent, and even translated into Latin a catechism organized by the council.
The text is neatly printed in roman in single-column format with capital spaces with guide letters (unaccomplished) and marginal notes; the title-page contains the iconic Aldine device.
Provenance: Early ink signature “Alexii Feni” on title-page; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear of both the text and its clamshell housing.
Adams C1559; UCLA, Aldine Press: Catalogue of the Ahmanson-Murphy Collection (2001), 674; EDIT 16 CNCE 27775; Renouard, Alde, p. 186, 5; Goldsmid, Aldine Press at Venice, *546. On John Chrysostom, see: New Catholic Encyclopedia, VII, 1041–44. 16th-century limp vellum with title label on spine and evidence of ties; vellum wrinkled and stained, significant portions lacking on spine, edges of endpapers tattered with some paper loss and text block recently reattached. Housed in a maroon cloth clamshell with black leather labels. Light to moderate age-toning and staining with the occasional spot, several leaves with waterstaining to bottom corner or small marginal worm tracking; a handful of creased corners, a few examples of hurried paper manufacture, chipping to edges of first and last few leaves of text including title-page. Provenance marks as above, one early inked correction to a marginal note. (38092)
Koch, Rudolf, & Fritz Kredel. Christian symbols. San Francisco: Arion Press, 1996. 4to (28.6 cm, 11.25"). [9], 158, [5] pp.; illus. $125.00
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“One hundred and fifty-eight graphic images from the history of Christianity.” These important religious emblems drawn by Rudolf Koch with the help of Fritz Kredel are presented in a bound book from theArion Pressfor the first time. They were previously published as a folder of plates between 1932 and 1935; the reproductions here were reduced to ninety percent of the original. Koch intended for the book to be used as a reference for other artists and churches.
Typographer Koch (1876–1934) and graphic designer Kredel (1900–73) previously collaborated on their well-known Book of Signs. Koch's preface, translated to English from the original German by Kevin Ahern, is provided, as well as a foreword from Andrew Hoyem.
The prospectus is laid in.
Publisher's blue-green cloth, white spine label with blue lettering; one very faint scuff to front board. In original tan paper slipcase; light spot of sunning to one side. Interior is bright. A beautiful copy! (38304)
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A CREEK Dictionary
Loughridge, Robert McGill. English and Muskokee dictionary. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1914. 8vo (20 cm, 7.825"). [4] ff., frontis. port., 236 pp. [SOLD]
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This important English/Creek, Creek/English dictionary is based on data “collected from various sources and revised by Rev. R.M. Loughridge . . . and Elder David M. Hodge” (title-page). Loughridge was the pastor of the Creek Mission, Indian Territory, while Hodge was an elder of the congregation and served as an interpreter. Originally published in 1890, it is here in only the second edition.
Hargrett, Gilcrease-Hargrett Catalogue of Imprints, p. 180 (for the first edition, not listing the second). Publisher’s charcoal cloth; extremities and lower edges rubbed, spine faintly sunned. (39602)
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Court of Chancery Reports forDUBLIN
Moseley, William. Reports of cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery, during the time of the late Lord Chancellor King. Dublin: Pr. by Oli. Nelson for the administratrix of the author, 1744. Folio (32.2 cm, 12.7"). [10], 442 pp. $750.00
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First edition, with a list of subscribers headed by the Right Honorable Robert, Lord Baron Newport, Lord Chancellor of Ireland; as with most Reports, the reading illuminates human as well as legal history.
Provenance: Title-page and several others stamped by the Birmingham Law Society; title-page with inked ownership inscription of Hamilton Stuart, dated 1755.
Evidence of readership: Several instances of corrections and marginalia in Stuart's hand, including two substantive annotations; occasional underlining.
ESTC T95792; Sweet & Maxwell 347. Period-style quarter calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, raised bands, and blind-tooled compartment decorations. First leaf of contents with closed tear at center; one leaf with tear from outer margin, not touching text. Scattered spots of faint foxing, with varying degrees of age-toning; a clean copy. A solid and distinguished-looking copy, with additional interest in its evidence of readership. (35368)
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“Muy Rara” — Otomí by aNative-Speaker — with the FRONTISPIECE!
Neve y Molina, Luis de. Reglas de orthographia, diccionario, y arte del idioma othomi. Mexico: Bibliotheca Mexicana, 1767. Small 8vo (14.5 cm, 5.75". Frontis., [2] ff., 160 pp., engr. leaf of errata. $5500.00
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Otomí is one of the principal languages spoken in Central Mexico, and this work, more than any other, standardized its orthography; it is also the classic Otomí grammar and dictionary, and is by a man some authorities believe to have been himself an Otomí Indian, or at least of Otomí heritage. It was written during the mid-18th-century renaissance of linguistic study of the languages of Mexico, and Palau considers it “muy rara.” (It is much rarer on the market, in our experience, than similarly important works in Nahuatl.)
Both the engraved frontispiece and the engraved errata leaf are signed by the engraver Jose Francisco Gomez; the former, often, is not present but it ishere in very good state.
Provenance:Red leather bookplate stamped in gold of Estelle Doheny on front pastedown.
Medina, Mexico, 5174; García Icazbalceta, Lenguas, 55; Viñaza 356; Maggs, Bibl. Amer., II, 2154; Sabin 52413; Palau 190159; Pilling, Proof-sheets, 2738. Contemporary vellum, now shrunk to smaller than the size of the text block, with newer endpapers, ties lacking, light to moderate staining and wear to interior; housed in a custom slipcase of quarter vellum and cranberry-colored cloth with a cloth chemise. A good copy of an important and scarce book, complete and with a good provenance. (31417)
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Signed, Limited Edition
Oppenheimer, Joel. Sirventes on a sad occurrence. Madison, WI: The Perishable Press, 1967. 12mo (18.3 cm, 7.25"). [4] pp.; 6 ff., [2] pp. $150.00
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First separate printing of this poem, which Walter Hamady (proprietor
of thePerishable Press) described as “one
of Joel's most top-shelf poems . . . so tough and at the same time so tender
with a humanity as big as the planet.” The text is printed in black, brown,
and red on Arches and Nideggen papers, in a pamphlet binding handsewn by Hamady.
This is one of 130 copies printed and wassigned
by the author. The colophon features
Hamady's distinctive pressmark, calligraphed by Sheikh Nasib Makarem.
Two Decades of Hamady & the Perishable Press, 10.
Publisher's mushroom-colored paper wrappers; outer edge of front wrapper
creased, otherwise unworn and clean. (30787)
Society of the Cincinnati. Pennsylvania. Proceedings of the
General Society of the Cincinnati, with the original institution of the Order.... Philadelphia: Pr. by John Ormrod, 1801. 8vo. 82 pp. $850.00
At its founding, The Society or Order of the Cincinnati was composed of the regular army officers who had fought at some length and in specific prominent theaters for American independence, equality, and freedom; future members were to be drawn from among their sons only. By the time that the Society published its second constitution, the Order had changed its membership rules to admit militia and other officers and then their heirs diluting its elite nature though not renouncing it.
This publication demonstrates that change among many others, as it traces the Society via its own documents from its founding at the "Cantonment of the American Army, on Hudson's River, 10th May, 1783," through the incorporation of the Pennsylvania branch, to the death of Gen. Washington. Included here are the by-laws of the Pennsylvania chapter.
Shaw & Shoemaker 1339. Sewn, as issued. Front wrapper missing, rear wrapper present. A few spots of waterstaining. Uncut copy. New protective paper corset provided and the whole housed in a cloth clam shell case with a leather spine label lettered in gilt. A very good copy. (2946)
Review of Improvements in theCare & Treatment of Mental Illness
Tuke, Daniel Hack. Rules and list of the present members of the Society for Improving the Condition of the Insane; and the prize essay entitled Progressive changes which have taken place since the time of Pinel in the moral management of the insane and the various contrivances which have been adopted instead of mechanical restraint. London: Published for the Society by John Churchill, 1854. 8vo (23.5 cm, 9.25"). 6, 8, [2], 9–119, [3] pp. $600.00
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Psychiatric care came naturally to Daniel Tuke (1827–95): His great-grandfather William Tuke and his grandfather Henry Tuke co-founded The Retreat, an institution credited with revolutionizing the treatment of the mentally ill, and his father continued the Tuke family presence at the leadership level of the hospital.
Daniel took his medical degree at Heidelberg in 1853 and then visited foreign asylums observing treatments and innovations. Returning to York, he became visiting physician to the York Retreat and the York Dispensary, lecturing also at the York School of Medicine on mental diseases.
In addition to his prize essay, this volume contains a short abstract or classification of cases contributed bySir Alexander Morison.
Provenance: In a fine hand in ink on verso of title-page: “Presented to the Library of the Charing Cross Hospital Med. College by Jabez Hogg, Esq. 29 Sept. 1856.” Hogg was a prominent ophthalmic surgeon and for two years vice-president of the Medical Society of London. Most recently in the library of Robert Sadoff, M.D., sans indicia.
Publisher's cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title; dust-soiled overall, spine cloth chipped and sunned, ex-library with bookplate and several rubber-stamps. Clean and sound. An important and now scarce work on the care of the mentally ill, residential treatment, mental hospitals, and physical restraint. (39786)
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American WINE & More 1867
United States. Department of Agriculture. Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the year 1867. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1868. 8vo (23.5 cm; 9.25"). xix, [1], 512 pp., XXXVII plates; illus. $225.00
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A presentation copy of Acting Commissioner John W. Stokes' report to Congress for the year 1867. The report includes reports and research on a variety of crops and domestic animals; steam and other cultivation, and rural construction; patents; agricultural clubs, schools, associations; also climate and meteorology. The authors include Thomas Antisell (chemist of the
department), Thomas Glover (entomologist), F.R. Elliott (on hardy fruit, especially apples), Walter W.W. Bowie (on tobacco), and Mrs. Ellen S. Tupper (winter bee keeping), to single out a
few. Freethinker George Husmann (of Herman, Missouri) provided this cataloguer's favorite report, “American Wine and Wine Making.”
The excellent plates are divided between steel and wood engravings, with additional wood-engraved illustrations in some texts.
The presenter of the volume was R.T. McLain, chief clerk of the Department of Agriculture; the Hon. J. Gregory Smith, the recipient, was the president of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company.
Binding: A presentation binding of black morocco over boards with slightly bevelled edges. Covers with a gilt triple fillet border and a gilt floral vine inner “border.” Recipient's name in gilt in center of front board. Round spine, raised bands, gilt spine extra; gilt roll on board edges, different gilt roll on turn-ins. Pink endpapers of a textured paper, printed with an overall pattern of small gilt interlocking circles. Green silk place marker. All edges gilt.
A very nice example of a mid-19th-century presentation binding.
Binding as above, lightly rubbed at the joints (outside) and board edges. McLain's presentation card pasted to front pastedown, above Smith's bookplate. A very good copy of a book that is, as we say here, “interesting for more than one reason.” (35244)
Wilson, Henry. Wonderful characters [comprising memoirs and anecdotes of the most remarkable persons of every age and nation]. London: J. Robins & Co. Albion Press, 1826 & 1821. 8vo (20.8 cm, 8.2"). 2 vols. (of 3, ONLY). I: Engr. t.-p., iv, 496 pp.; 16 plts. II: Engr. t.-p., [3]–480 pp.; 14 plts. (printed t.-p. lacking in both). [SOLD]
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Fascinating sketches of such legendary personages as Bampfylde Moore Carew (the cross-dressing self-styled King of the Beggars), Hannah Snell (the “Female Warrior”), the epically absent-minded Rev. George Harvest (who missed his own wedding because he lost track of time while fishing!), Nathaniel Bentley (“Dirty Dick”), Elizabeth Parsons (perpetrator of the “Cock Lane Ghost” fraud), and many more, some whose names are still remembered and others more obscure. Contemporary mindsets are on full display, and some of the subjects are — in a way not always comfortable for modern readers — men, women, and children with physical or mental “deformities.”
The lives are illustrated with a total of30 engraved plates, done by Robert Page and Robert Cooper, including an image of Peter Williamson in the Native American garb he adopted after his self-proclaimed Indian captivity.
This set, in matched contemporary bindings, comprises the first edition thus of the second volume and the second of the first, as per Allibone.
Allibone, III, 2771; NSTC 2W25254. Contemporary half dark blue calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spines with gilt-stamped red leather title-labels, raised bands with gilt roll, and blind-tooled decorations in compartments; all edges marbled to match sides. Two volumes only, of three; printed title-pages lacking in both volumes. Early pencilled ownership inscription to front fly-leaf of vol. I; one page with pencilled inscription in upper margin. Vol. I with upper outer corners of two leaves torn away (not touching text); one plate with old repair at upper inner corner (just touching corner of frame). Two pages in vol. I with what might be splashes of tea; light waterstaining to inner margin of first text page and to outer portions of a number of plates in vol. II; mild to moderate age-toning and scattered light foxing throughout. Incomplete and priced accordingly; stillfascinating for both the anecdotes and the illustrations. (40364)
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